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Because DDT is still widely used in much of the developing world, its effects remain extant even though the United States and other nations have prohibited the manufacturing of the chemical.
On December 31, 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency instated a ban on the substance. With DDT illegal in the United States, its use remains restricted to a number of developing nations and also to many modern nations like South Africa (Grener nd). DDT is still manufactured and used in agriculture worldwide even though the chemical is banned in the United States. In fact, DDT is manufactured in many countries including Mexico and is imported by a host of large and largely populated nations like India, the Philippines, and Venezuela (DDT). Crops that are imported to the United States from those countries may have been grown on DDT-tainted fields, and so DDT is indirectly still circulating through the blood streams of many Americans.
The overall impact of DDT has been negative. The chemical has adversely affected the business of agriculture and has increased dependence on chemical pesticides in general. Pest have become resistant to DDT, which is one of the reasons why farmers and scientists because suspicious of the substance. Yet the most significant...
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Davis, K.S. (nd). The DEADLY DUST: The Unhappy History of DDT. American Heritage.com. Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1971/2/1971_2_44.shtml
DDT." Originally published in Pesticides News No.40, June 1998, p18-20. Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Actives/ddt.htm
DDT: An Introduction." Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/pest/pest1.html
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (1972). DDT Ban Takes Effect. Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (1975). DDT Regulatory History: A Brief Survey (to 1975). Excerpt from DDT, a Review of Scientific and Economic Aspects of the Decision to Ban Its Use as a Pesticide, prepared for the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives by EPA, July 1975, EPA-540/1-75-022. Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/02.htm
Grener, L. (nd). The History of DDT:Linda Grener. Retrieved Sept 24, 2008 at http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/ddt
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